User blog comment:Brigadier Barty/In the Wake of the Red Ship/@comment-26538658-20151127002536/@comment-9124274-20151202023021

Well to be fair a kestrel could hold it in both talons. It would be unwieldy, hard to impossible to land with, and almost useless for anything but stabbing a dropping. Besides as a kestrel I can say from experience that talons are basically a bunch of daggers.